Improvement in ironing-tables



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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIQE.

CORNELIUS BLOM, JB., OF GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOB OF ONE- HALF HISRIGHT TO THOMAS J. TUBBS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN IRONING-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,614, dated December16,1873; application filed October 18, 1873.

To all whom 'it muy concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS BLOM, Jr., et' Grand Haven, in the countyof Ottowa and State of Michigan, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in an Ironing-Table; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings,inaking a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1 ofthe drawings is a representation ot' a sectional view ot' myironing-board. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the saine.

This invention has relation to supports for ironing-boards; and itconsists in a folding supporting-brace and an ironing-board, which isadapted for attachment to a wall by means of hooks and eyes, as will behereinafter cxplained.

The following is a description of my improvement:

In the annexed drawings, A represents an ironing-board, of any suitableshape or size, which has two eyes, a a', fixed into its largest end, forengaging with hooks b 011 the Wall Gr. B B represent two parallelsupporting-legs, connected together by a cross-bar, e, near their lowerbeveled ends, and connected to the bottom of the board A by means ofhinges f. D represents a prop or brace, which is pivoted to a block, g,at i, and connected to a sliding' crossbar, d, at its opposite end. Thecrossbar cl has rounded extremities s s, which are received into slots cformed in the legs B. The

slots c are of such length as will allow the legs and prop to be foldedup close to the board A, as shown in Fig. 2, when it is desired to setthe board out ofthe way.

To erect the board, the eyes a a are caught into the hooks b I), and thelegs B are brought down upon the floor F in the inclined positionindicated in Fig. l. The cross-head d, on prop D, is then moved down tothe lower ends of the slots c, so that this prop, with the legs B andboard A, forni a triangle, which will firmly support the board in ahorizontal position.

It will be observed that the legs B B pre vent the board from beingtilted laterally, while the downwardlydirected hooks b b prevent theboard from being tilted longitudinally.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The ironing-board A having the hinged oblique-slotted legs B, thepivoted prop D having the horizontal cross-bar d with rounded endssliding in the slots c of said legs, said slots being of proper lengthto allow the legs and prop to be folded closely up against the board,and, when down, to take a bracing position nearly rectangular with eachother, substantially as speeiied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

CORNELIUS BLOM, JR.

IVitnesses JACOB DE BAE, A. A. TRACY.

